About DEHub

The Distance Education Hub (DEHub) is financed through a Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund provided by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). As the Australian distance education environment rapidly expands DEHub serves as a central online agency for the provision of best practises in the delivery of distance education resources across the Australian higher education sector. The priorities of ‘ease-of-access’, ‘ease-of-understanding’, and ‘ease-of-implementation’ are designed to ensure that DEHub remains the primary first-step facility for educational, research, and community needs.

- who we help - 
DEHub was designed with a broad base to serve an ever widening range of distance education needs and interests. The Distance Education Research and Evaluation theme is designed to assist academic staff, independent researchers, higher degree research students, research committees and networks, government agencies, and non-government organizations. The Distance Education Learning and Teaching theme is designed to assist teaching and support staff, ICT providers and managers, and students engaged in distance education courses. Finally, the Distance Education Community theme is designed to assist all of the above, with the addition of broader public and private sector community and institutional bodies.

- how we help -
DEHub will provide leadership in developing and implementing models for distance education research, teaching, and community engagement across the Australian tertiary sector. Resources available through DEHub will aim at streamlining and improving the processes involved in undertaking distance education research by serving as a clearinghouse for best practise methods and systems in networking and communication, research collaboration and cooperation, data sharing, resource hosting, and research management. DEHub will help teachers and students by providing world’s best guidelines on the nature and format of distance education environments and practises. DEHub will facilitate and support distance education community environments and enhance the nature of community relations and partnerships by providing information and access to resources and services. In all cases, associated professionals can utilise DEHub to improve their practises through exploring the range of options, test the practicalities of theories and ideas, and, where viable, integrate these options into their own research, teaching, and community environments.